2012/4/14 Rural Hunter <ruralhun...@gmail.com> > My db is in utf-8, I have a row in my table say tmp_article and I wanted > to generate ts_vector from the article content: > select to_tsvector(content) from tmp_article; > But I got this error: > ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xf481 > > I am wondering how this could happen. I think if there was invalid UTF8 > bytes in the content, it shouldn't have been able to inserted into the > tmp_article table as I sometimes see similar errors when inserting records > to tmp_article. Am I right? > > This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the encodingexpected by the server, which is controlled by "client_encoding". Try to set client_encoding='LATIN1'
and then execute select to_tsvector(content) from tmp_article; -- Thanks & Regards, Raghu Ram EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
